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Tornado Warning 2, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 3, 2000Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:01 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2000, 5:01 PM CST (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 5:35 PM CST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Tangipahoa Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 456 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 032300
TORNEW
LAC105-032335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
501 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS LA HAS ISSUED A...

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
   - NORTH CENTRAL TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA


* UNTIL 535 PM CST

* AT 455 PM CST...DOPPLER INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST SOUTH
  AMITE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE HOLTON AND WILMER.


IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE
OF STURDY FURNITURE. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 4:34 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana16 min
Jan 3, 5:21 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXWashington34 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.